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Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, CDC says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report
today that says fentanyl has become the deadliest drug in the nation, overtaking heroin.

From 1999 to 2016, drug overdose deaths in the United States tripled from 6.1 per 100,000 people to 19.8 per 100,000 people, the CDC report
says. The study examined decedents who were U.S. residents with an underlying cause of death being a drug overdose, including people who did it unintentionally and intentionally (suicide and homicide and undetermined reasons).